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British Board of Film Classification (Accountability to Parliament and Appeals) Bill

I most certainly do agree with my hon. Friend about that, as do the Human Rights Act and the European convention on human rights. I hope to talk about that later on. The point, first, is where the balance lies; and secondly, who exercises the decision making. My concern is about skating around the issue and calling it something that it is not. My hon. Friend mentioned protecting the public, but that is the object, not the exercise; the exercise is censorship with the aim of protecting the public in the end. That is a better way of looking at this debate. If we skate around and pretend that that is not what we are about, we run the risk of ducking the issue.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
472 c1386 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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